.RAR File Extension

Are you having difficulty opening a file that ends with .RAR? Such files can be executed only by certain programs. If you cannot open the .RAR file, it can be due to the following reasons: either you do not have an appropriate program to open it, or your file association is corrupted. For more information about this extension, please read the article below.

What is a .RAR file?

.RAR file belongs to the category of Compressed Files used in operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

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Developer: Eugene Roshal

File Type: WinRAR Compressed Archive

Category: Compressed Files

Format: Binary

.RAR file is associated with WinRAR Compressed Archive developed by Eugene Roshal, has a Binary Format and belongs to Compressed Files category.

A RAR file is an archive that contains a file/files that a RAR program has compressed. The corresponding file is compressed with a high compression ratio, including the compression algorithm used by the rest of the compressors.

Since RAR archives have files of reduced size, they are used by users of file transfer/storage.

Additional data

RAR files are used to store collections of files of different sizes, such as raw camera files along with video files. A user can get a RAR file in different ways.

The RAR compressor still knows how to make branched and multi-volume archives, split into compressed files from .r00 to .r99 extension or with a standard .RAR extension.

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